Rangers Banter Archive December 30 2016

30 Dec 2016 23:14:38
Reading a few happy posts with regard to the game tomorrow!

I get it, I have watched the same nonsense games and I have seen no real tactical prowess from Warburton but at Ibrox we still have a chance.

I think the fact that we are at home and have a point to prove will push us to the win.

With a big 12th man in the crowd, positive atmosphere and a team that actually turns up we can win any game.

Enjoy and be safe if you are going.

👍 it feels good to be positive.

31 Dec 2016 02:45:41
So Bears the minute silence before the game. Who here thinks that it ain't just going to be a few that will display disgusting behaviour but a few thousand showing disrespect in front of the TV cameras for the world to witness. Hope I'm wrong but can see them acting up.

31 Dec 2016 09:41:34
Idiots are present in every support, your own included andy, but to say a few thousand is a bit much. A handful at most may cause bother. Its the law of averages. there's a match to be played and all you can think about (hope for) is Celtic fans not remaining silent, so as to take the focus away from any potential pumping. Get a life, decent folk from any walk of life will respect the silence. can't vouch for 1 or 2 halfwits. Should be an applause i feel, to drown out the halfwittery.

30 Dec 2016 21:09:52
We should sign johnny Hayes from
The sheep.

30 Dec 2016 19:55:50
All I ask is that our team remember who they play for, and show pride in the strips they wear, and then maybe tomorrow, they will be able to say, after a victory hopefully, we are proud to play for Rangers and to wear the colour blue.

30 Dec 2016 20:04:49
Great post billyb.

30 Dec 2016 20:42:44
Hopefully BillyB.

I'm a bit amazed about the negativity about the game. I mean obviously Celtic are favourites but we can at least hope to come away with something from tomorrow.

I would have liked Warbs to be much more positive in the build-up and not go on about how Celtic have a much bigger budget - they had a much bigger budget last year in the Cup semi-final and look what happened there. And didn't MW have a go at Alan Stubbs last year for saying something similar about Rangers paying 4 times the wages of Hibs?

As an example of the negativity, even Derek Johnstone said tonight on Clyde that it was all about budgets. Well, why did he tip Rangers to win the league then? And while budgets are a massive factor, if it really was all about budgets, Leicester would have been lucky to finish midtable in the EPL last year.

30 Dec 2016 21:45:43
True but look at the quality Leicester brought in.

30 Dec 2016 22:13:30
Ive heard Warbs saying countless times he hates the idea of putting negative thots into the players heads because if that's what they hear then they'l believe it so his presser seems abit strange. seems to me he's trying to have a ready made excuse if it goes boobs up 2moro.

30 Dec 2016 22:34:11
I'm with billyb, its an honour and privilege to play for Rangers. If the players are up for it as much as the fans then it could be close. C'mon the Gers.

30 Dec 2016 15:49:08
Doesn't matter what team he picks, they are all simply not good enough . I'll be amazed if we get a draw. Not being mr negative, i just can't see us getting anything out of the game. Defence is slow, midfield lightweight to say the least and our strikers couldn't score in a barrel of you know what.

30 Dec 2016 16:03:58
To be fair the post is pretty negative, have a couple of drams and come back on.

30 Dec 2016 16:23:31
I'd say more honest than negative.

30 Dec 2016 18:14:57
Djab that is complete nonsense. Please listen to yourself before you subject the rest of us to that hogwash.

30 Dec 2016 18:42:49
Gfaser . what is hogwash? We are all rangers fans but let's be honest, we are a bad lot. If people like you can't see this, then so be it. We are miles off the pace. Go through the Celtic/ rangers squads. If you were to pick the best players for each position, how many rangers players would get picked? A couple at the MOST. Ok I knew it would take more than 1 season for us to be challenging again, however for you to say our defence isn't slow, our midfield v lightweight and strikers who try and walk them all into the net then how can you disagree?

30 Dec 2016 18:48:15
Lets hope management and the players share none of the negativity being displayed on here. If you think we have no chance the only thing certain is defeat. We are outsiders with the bookies that us all. I've seen many games over the years where odds have been overturned. I for one believe we have nothing to fear and can prove people wrong tomorrow.

30 Dec 2016 19:35:02
Djab it clearly isn't only me who disagrees, fella. The baloney leaking out of your mouth is delirious at the best of times. Take things in perspective for once. Rangers have just made it back to the top flight and are already comfortably the 2nd best team in the league. Warburton is new to the league and I can only see him and the squad improving with experience. Dial back your expectations for a bit and join the rest of us back here in reality.

30 Dec 2016 20:06:45
GFraser. You say he is knew to the league. Never heard these comments last year when beating killie, Dundee, celtic. All we heard was wait till we are back next year we shall be challenging for 55. Brendan Rodgers is new to the league?

30 Dec 2016 20:51:59
Lance Armstrong, if you can see the difference between the caliber of clubs which Warburton previously managed and that of which Rodgers previously managed, then not even John Greig can save you.

30 Dec 2016 21:30:16
Lance Armstrong, if you CAN'T see the difference between the caliber of clubs which Warburton previously managed and that of which Rodgers previously managed, then not even John Greig can save you.

30 Dec 2016 21:58:09
May as well throw the towel in then eh? Don't think so!

30 Dec 2016 12:01:50
Team for tomorrow this would be my starting 11
GK Foderingham
LB Halliday
CB Wilson
CB Hill if fit
RB Hodson
DM Crooks
CM Windass
CM Holt
LW McKay
CF Waghorn
RW MOH

What do fellow bears think I know wallace is definitely out and so no other natural left footer player or lb other than Halliday so I would put him there

30 Dec 2016 12:11:15
If wallace is out i'd go with hodson in at LB.

30 Dec 2016 12:34:06
Assuming Wallace not available and Hill is would go for:

Fod
Hodson
Hill
Wilson
Halliday
Tav
Holt
Miller
Mckay
Waghorn
MOH.

30 Dec 2016 12:42:28
whos playing dm fd.

30 Dec 2016 13:23:46
3 at back, Hill, Wilson, Halliday.
Hodson RWB (taking case of Sinclair)
5 across middle, Tav, Holt, Miller, McKay, MOH
Waggy roaming up front

Tav to double up on Sinclair
Halliday held back in defensive position to nullify Roberts/ Forrest (Mckay in Support) .
5 in midfield out number and frustrate Celtic 3
No single DM, although of the 5 Holt held permanently in check.

30 Dec 2016 14:02:15
Hahahahahaha hodson (who? ) is going to take care of sinclair Hahahahahaha aye nae bother pal.

30 Dec 2016 14:07:39
As it was pretty apparent the lack of goal threat in the last few games I would play young zak rudden he maybe young but he knows where the goal is plus hodson has to start either lb ( if Wallace not fit) or rb.

30 Dec 2016 14:37:21
I don't think it matters too much who we play or where, Celtic will be too good for us again, I'm afraid.
Might have a wee chance if we could sneak on an extra four or five players (term players used very lightly)
We are absolutely gash and a real eyesore. As I said in a previous post, I really hope they prove me wrong.

Mon The Bears.

30 Dec 2016 15:32:26
The only hope is that Celtic think it is too easy and every one of our players is up for it! That might have happened previously but whether it will happen with their current manager is debatable.

Finding eleven players in our current squad to make any real threat is difficult but another defeat will only go to emphasise the size of the rebuilding programme that lies ahead of us. We are so far short of quality players right now it is frightening!

30 Dec 2016 17:54:42
It will be a hard game the morra we need to beat them at ibrox and get right intae them from the first whistle. Ronda Rousey to win the night Rangers to win the morra that will be my weekend sorted.

30 Dec 2016 21:16:26
This would be my rangers team for the morrow:
foderingham (gk)
tav (rb)
hill (rcb)
wilson (lcb)
hodson (lb)
halliday (dm)
windass (cm)
holt (cm)
o'halloran (rw)
miller (cf)
mckay (lw)
Thoughts on this starting 11 bears? Its full of pace! We have to go at this mob from the off!

30 Dec 2016 21:32:23
343 when attacking, 532 when defending.

Fod
Kiernan hill wilson
tav haliday hodson
Windass mckay
Waghorn Garner

If wallace is fit he plays on the left, hodson on the right. Then its tav or windass or miller. I fear if we play 4 at the back we will get caught and we all know there is a daft pass back/ play out of trouble nonsense in there. When attacking front 3 of wag garner mckay.

30 Dec 2016 21:37:38
Cm'on Pie and Bovril no team is unbeatable! Especially that one, we need to hassle them and close them down . No rash challenges and keep the head. According to all concerned with them they just need to turn up, so let's frustrate them and let them show us how good they really are. Its not us saying we'll be unbeaten all season so who really has the pressure on them? Time to step up and play guys . roll the sleeves up and fight for every ball . no one likes us we don't care! Cm'on the gers!

30 Dec 2016 10:39:47
what will our formation be tomorow? i don't understand why we would change the game prior to us playing the manky mob? thoughts?

30 Dec 2016 11:01:17
The one that dispatches their usual and constant pre match excuses. Brenda's no different apparently.

30 Dec 2016 11:01:54
they're not manky at all, they're quite the opposite.

30 Dec 2016 11:07:04
I don't see anything other than a back 4 tomorrow! can't seem him bringing in any fringe players, mibi holt dropping out and tav into midfield, we've had plenty of bad performances this season yet the same players play most games so likes of dodoo forrester and crooks will probably sit on the bench again! Reckon it will be: wes hodson keirnan wilson wallace halliday tav windass mackay miller garner! Not how I would go but just how I think he might start it.

30 Dec 2016 11:09:14
Your formation will simple, back eleven crying in the rain, arguing who will pick the ball from the net to restart the game, as Celtic hammer another 5 passed you.

30 Dec 2016 11:24:18
I think he'l go with waggy 2moro mate. think that's the reason he was on the bench the other nite plus gives us abit more balance with him bn left footed.

30 Dec 2016 11:27:23
You can play with 11 men behind the ball for all we care. You will still loose 0 - 3.

30 Dec 2016 12:10:05
Confidence is high within the green support i see, good i like that, all the higher to fall from and ruin your hogmany.

30 Dec 2016 12:21:30
Stmonkey, its not the win I'm worrying about, its getting the correct score right, I've has a couple of 5s on 0-5 and 1-5, that should cover my bar bill for the first week of the new year.

30 Dec 2016 16:07:05
Ur bar bills doesn't cover tears when we might just shock ya, 2 1 bears, garner winner then gets sent of for upsetting the away support lol, no matter the outcome hope everybody has a great new year.

30 Dec 2016 21:50:06
Boyscout : Go ahead and throw your money away, no way you are getting 5 goals.

30 Dec 2016 22:17:22
At least we can be sure that 44,000 will have washed before the game tomorrow.

30 Dec 2016 22:18:14
Boyscout, no way will you score 5.

30 Dec 2016 22:25:53
Quietly confident rangers will beat them tomorrow and ruin their hogmanay! Won't stop them winning the league, of course it won't but it'll certainly give all the bears the best hogmanay going into the new year party! Just go at them glasgow rangers, they are most certainly beatable! Give your all and leave everything on the ibrox hallowed turf! Git intae them!